Urban Landscapes: Group Exhibition

Urban Landscapes: Group Exhibition

22 April - 16 May 1998

Victoria Miro Cork Street

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16 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW

Miles Coolidge, Marin Kasimir, Katia Liebmann, Steven Pippin

Ostensibly employing the techniques of Bernd and Hilla Becher, Canadian born and LA based Miles Coolidge undermines the apparent gravitas of their social and urban documentation in a selection of six deadpan photographs of Safetyville, a deceptively real town outside Sacramento built to one third scale in order to teach children road safety.

Marin Kasimir, a German artist based in Brussels has been developing panoramic photography with a round shot camera over the past ten years, presenting the viewer with a simultaneous view of what is in front and what is behind. This piece was first exhibited in the exhibition La Ville at the Centre Pompidou in 1994.

The pin-hole camera is the means by which Katia Liebmann, recent graduate of the Royal College of Art and short listed for this year's Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize, makes her photos and this exhibition presents works depicting views of London that have an archaic and Victorian feel due to the low-tech device she uses.

Steven Pippin shows Mall Adjustment (Photo booth self-portrait),1996 where a photo booth situated in a commercial shopping mall in Windsor, Ontario, was converted into a pin-hole camera and used to make its own self portrait. The work signifies Pippin's continual interest in making images from a perspective of self-absorbtion which emerge from the internal eye of objects that we might consider mundane.

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